What do you like better here than on Reddit?
You won’t get banned for speaking your mind, even if that includes talking shit to bad actors who argue in bad faith. Reddit effectively protects and cultivates bad actors acting in bad faith. They can spread their misinformation. When you point out that they are dipshits and why, complete with sources, you get banned while they continue to spread their misinformation.
Threads also stay active longer on Lemmy. If you’re a few hours late to a Reddit post, too late. No one will see or interact with your comment. On Lemmy a thread can stay active for a few days.
What do you miss from Reddit?
The more nuanced subs. That’s literally it. Lemmy doesn’t have a lot of the subs I had on Reddit…yet. Mostly art subs dedicated to very specific forms of art. There’s nothing else to miss. Reddit is quickly becoming a cesspool that is losing what worth it once had.
Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different
Yes. There are notably less dipshit conservatives on here than on Reddit. I don’t care if that makes me sound like a partisan asshole. I am partisan when it comes to modern American conservatives. They are shitstain fascists and I don’t want them to be anywhere near me. I don’t view them as good people and I’ve never met one that argued in good faith. I respect and desire alternate viewpoints, but I don’t respect or desire conservative viewpoints, because they’re always in bad faith, if not outright racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or xenophobic. To give you an idea, Lemmy users ran the conservatives out of the actual conservative sub and it’s effectively used for mocking conservatives now. So yeah, Lemmy isn’t a big fan of shitstain conservatives. Which means on an average day, I’m reading a lot less filth than I was on Reddit.
American here.
Because Americans are stupid.
Well, enough are anyway.
This is the country that made a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist with one failed presidency under his belt our leader…again.
We did already impeach him…twice. But now Republicans are in total control (see stupid Americans comment above), so Republicans would have to impeach him this time, but they’re all spineless fascists, so that isn’t happening. In America impeachment is just the first step, then the Senate has to actually remove them. After the first two impeachments the spineless fascist Republicans in the Senate refused to remove him, even though it was at the very end of his first term and gave them the perfect opportunity to permanently rid themselves of him. But again, they are spineless fascists.
Why do many Americans support him? It’s a combination of stupidity, ignorance, hate, and fear. Humans who don’t receive a proper education or upbringing end up being easily manipulated by those things. That’s the case here in America. Expect it to get a whole lot worse.